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Benjamin Manning

@benjaminsmanning.bsky.social
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PhD student @MIT | Economics. AI Agents, & Scientific Discovery | Techno-optimistic-ish | benjaminmanning.io

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Katy Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨New Paper Alert🚨 In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Emma Wiles @emmawiles.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market. emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...
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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 25/02/2025
After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat
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